Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., American, 1929 - 1968 Birmingham Jail, American Birmingham Civil Rights Institute, American, founded 1992 Description A black-and-white photograph of Martin Luther King Jr.

Rev. Martin Luther King Jr., civil rights leader, goes to jail in Birmingham, Ala., May 8, 1963, after being convicted of parading without a permit.

T he future of the St. Johns County jail, where civil rights icon Martin Luther King Jr. was held in 1964, is uncertain after ...

Martin Luther King Jr.’s 1963 “Letter from Birmingham Jail,” even more than his “I Have a Dream” speech at the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom, raised a vision for social ...

— Martin Luther King, Jr., Letter from Birmingham Jail “We stand in life at midnight; we are always on the threshold of a new ...

T he first time the life of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. rocked me was when I was a 16-year-old sleeping on the top bunk of a ...

Martin Luther King Jr., ... He made 30 trips to jail. ... but what else is there to do when you are alone for days in the ...

Rev. Martin Luther King's "Letter from Birmingham Jail" - written 60 years ago next week - deserves to stand alongside "I Have a DReam" as the slain leader's greatest works.